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Cerebras is interesting beyond its IPO because near-1,000-token-per-second inference changes the shape of the work: draft, check, repair, compare, and return before the human loses the thread.

The useful question is how much AI capability would still remain if the proprietary frontier disappeared tomorrow.

The common claim is that AI cannot replace your job. That may be true. But jobs are bundles of functions, and the better question is which functions are already moving closer to reliable AI handoff.

Loophole is not interesting because it solves ethics. It is interesting because it treats moral principles like something you can draft, attack, patch, and escalate until the real conflicts in your values finally surface.

Attio, Linear, and PostHog are converging on the same product bet: one fixed dashboard cannot serve every user or every intent, so the SaaS homepage is shifting toward an agentic entry point. Chat is the router. Generative UI is what comes next.

The next real step for agents is genuine multi-agent runtime across different harnesses: paired review loops, handoffs, shared threads, and open protocols such as A2A.

As of March 24, 2026, mobile AI coding is splitting around where the work runs: a phone steering your own machine, or a phone watching cloud agents work somewhere else.

Claude Code autonomy is not one trick. It starts with permission friction and context hygiene, then moves through subagents and loop hooks, and becomes genuinely useful when the system can measure whether the last iteration actually improved the work.

The newest memory systems do not make language models inherently stateful. They build recall, updates, and temporal reasoning around the model instead. Gemini Embedding 2 is the first mass-scale vector embedding that is multimodal.

The most useful way to understand AI progress isn't by tracking model names. It's by tracking the operating model: from chatbots that only talk to systems that can plan, act, coordinate, and increasingly sit across software.

AI can speed up individual tasks, but that does not automatically create more free time. From personal experience, the saved capacity gets filled by more complex tasks and higher expectations.

I write, build, and teach around AI, learning, and digital work.

A public interactive explainer showing how modern agent memory systems layer extraction, versioning, multimodal recall, and source grounding around stateless models.

A tiny agent-prep game where you build the tray an AI agent needs before it can do useful work.

A public interactive grimoire exploring AI through ritual, agency, memory, and dependence across twelve short chapters.

A public interactive map tracking major AI data center projects, locations, investment, and planned capacity.

A compact checklist for deciding whether an AI output is actually usable.

A living clock for four AI-exposed work functions, showing Bob's month-level estimates for when specific activities move closer to reliable AI handoff.

A supply and demand simulator for AI-exposed work units, showing how abundance can devalue tasks before whole jobs disappear.

A living map of the AI tools I use, what each one is for, and how I keep a large stack from turning into tool sprawl.

Working notes on how to move from prompt to draft to review without losing clarity.

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A public interactive guide to Claude Code, covering slash commands, memory, skills, hooks, MCP servers, subagents, and workflow patterns.

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A public interactive guide to the five levels of Claude Code autonomy, from permission friction through subagents and loop hooks to evaluation-driven improvement.

A public tracker for the moving floor of open-weight AI against the proprietary frontier ceiling.

A public interactive guide to agent-to-agent communication patterns, covering paired review, typed handoffs, shared threads, swarm routing, and the A2A protocol.

A small interactive demo for feeling how near-1,000-token-per-second inference changes agent loops and human attention.

A public interactive explainer for Loophole, Brendan Hogan's adversarial moral-legal code system for drafting, attacking, patching, and escalating edge cases in your own principles.

A public interactive guide to the split between local supervision, self-hosted mobile bridges, and cloud autonomy in mobile AI coding.

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A playful prompt-mixing experiment where sliders brew a reusable AI prompt recipe.

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A public interactive companion to The SaaS Homepage Is Becoming an Agent, tracing the shift from dashboard-first software to chat-first entry points and then to generated interfaces.

A public month-by-month timeline of AI breakthroughs, model launches, and industry shifts from GPT-3 to the agent era.

A public interactive timeline and story view tracing the evolution of large language models from Transformer to the May 20, 2026 agent, multimodal, and research frontier.

A public interactive guide to how AI evolved from chatbots into agentic systems, orchestrators, and software that behaves more like an operating system.

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A living clock for four AI-exposed work functions and Bob's month-level estimates for reliable AI handoff.

AI Function Clock

A living clock for four AI-exposed work functions, showing Bob's month-level estimates for when specific activities move closer to reliable AI handoff.

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The AI Function Clock tracks the parts of work that are moving toward reliable AI handoff.

It is not a forecast that whole jobs disappear on a specific date. It is a function-level view of a small set of slices: generative video series, customer support resolution, code review and fix loops, and medical admin documentation.

What the clock measures

Each function has a clock score, a month-level estimated window, a confidence level, evidence signals, and human bottlenecks. The score is a handoff-readiness score, not a job-loss probability. It is calculated from five drivers: capability, workflow fit, reliability, oversight ease, and adoption pressure.

The dates are labelled as Bob's estimate. They are not objective predictions. The point is to make the pressure visible and editable as the evidence changes.

Why functions instead of jobs

Jobs are bundles of context, judgement, trust, relationships, and accountability. AI usually does not replace that whole bundle at once.

But individual functions can move much faster. If enough functions shift, the role around them changes: scope changes, entry-level work narrows, headcount expectations move, and the human part of the job gets redefined.

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